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Colt helps China Telecom’s customers to expand into Europe China Telecom is a company that helps enterprises expand their IT infrastructure into Chinese and European markets, while providing excellent support in a language their customers understand. Their customers include large industrial, banking and financial sector enterprises. China Telecom needed Colt to help expand…

Please note that some articles have been transferred over from the Old Word Museum site. You may occasionally encounter broken links or outdated information in these articles. Betty Wilson Date: 2002 1878 COLT HAMMER SHOTGUN The Colt and Parker companies mass produced high-quality double-barrel, breech-loading shotguns in the nineteenth century. While price was secondary in…

By Al De John, Superintendent, Custom Gun Shop, Colt Firearms Hartford, CT. The care and cleaning of collectible firearms differs slightly from shooting models because of the special characteristics of the precious metal finish normally applied to a collectible model. Tender Loving care is required to maintain the original beauty and luster of the finish and, also, preserve…

The Colt .45 Peacemaker was one of the most famous Western guns in Wild West history. Ubiquitous with western icons such as Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, and Bat Masterson, you ll see why this is our most popular replica western gun. Our realistic replica features a 4.75 barrel, wood grips, and shell ejector. With this classic Western collectible, you can ’Cock it and pull it’…

A series of miscues and seeming benign neglect by its private equity owners led Colt Defense to file for bankruptcy. Image: Colt Defense. It should have been as easy as selling umbrellas in a rainstorm. From the run-up to the 2008 elections to the revelation last week that the Justice Department is prepping more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, firearms enthusiasts…

The Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection came to the Wadsworth Atheneum upon the death of Mrs. Colt in 1905. A time capsule of Victorian Hartford, the collection includes American and European paintings and sculpture, the furnishings and contents of Armsmear —the mansion-house built by Samuel Colt in 1857—and Colt’s personal collection of firearms, edged weapons, and armor…

Guns: An American tradition since well, pretty much since forever. Image source: Wikimedia Commons. This article was updated originally published on June 15, 2015 and updated on September 15, 2016. Do you love guns? Would you love to own a gun stock? I ve been investing in the stock market for about two decades now. Here at The Motley Fool, I ve been . Times change, however…

Samuel Colt marched to a different drummer. Did he ruin the world, or save it? The father of the modern personal firearms industry, Samuel Colt (1814-1862), grew up at a remarkable moment in global history: an era of relative peace and pacifism that lasted (with a few minor exceptions, like the Texas War of Independence) for more than thirty years, from the Battle of Waterloo…

GUEST: This is a poster that is from Colt s Firearms Manufacturing that I found in my great-grandfather s store. Went in the store after he had passed away, and it was curled up in a corner. APPRAISER: The artist is a great American illustrator and painter named Frank Schoonover. So Frank Schoonover was known as the dean of Delaware artists, and he was born in 1877 and died…

With its slightly chipped red grip and retro look, it could be the hand control for a Scalextric set or games console. In fact, the device seen here for the first time is the trigger to Britain’s nuclear deterrent, a button that when pressed could destroy hundreds of thousands of lives. It is in the hand of Lieutenant Commander Woods, the weapons engineer officer on HMS Vigilant…

Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources is a small, family-owned and operated business that has provided progressive materials for consciousness raising and fundraising since 1975. It was just one of those ventures a newly formed couple ventured upon, after stints in college and various jobs. We, Kate Donnelly and Clay Colt, wanted to change the world to make it a more tolerant…

DOC HOLLIDAY & KATE HARONEY Doc Holliday and Kate Haroney were both raised in fine homes. Both were provided with quality educations. Both, by most accounts, should have gone on to live law-abiding lives as well-heeled aristocrats. But both went westward instead, forging new lives for themselves. They found their freedom in the untamed frontier.. At America Remembers…

Enter Colt and Winchester. By the time of the Civil War Colt had become an established revolver maker. Following the conflict, Winchester introduced the Model 1866 that propelled that company into a household name. For the next two decades these two rising stars of the firearms world stayed mostly out of each other’s way. In the firearms world of the 1800s competitors knew…

Made in the USA The 1911 Combat Survivor can be carried with either the survival clip or the spare magazine for a Colt 1911 automatic. The SPEC-OPS sheath provides a pouch for the extra magazine. The 1911 Combat Survivor Bowie package includes: The Knife Combat Master Sheath from SPEC-OPS Extra 1911 Magazine Survival Clip: door of the compartment is a diamond hone for sharpening…